Myanmar is in freefall. Since the February 2021 military coup, the nation has plunged into unrelenting chaos with widespread atrocities, thousands of

China says it has brokered a ceasefire between Myanmar’s military government and a major ethnic rebel group in the country’s northeast

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The Independent has been hailed for shining a light on the continued imprisonment of Aung San Suu Kyi by a brutal military regime in Myanmar. The film looks at the life of the 79-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner who has become a deeply divisive and ...

As Myanmar’s military junta has announced the intention to hold elections this year, China has supported the move whereas the West and much of the international community called for deferment until af

Pro-democracy crusader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar (also known as Burma and Brahmadesh) recently completed a total of 19 years of detention under the military rulers .

The peace deal comes into effect on the weekend but experts aren't convinced it will lead to hostilities easing across the war-torn country.

The National Unity Government must be honest with the public about what the recent arrest warrant application does – and does not – entail.

It has now been four years since the Myanmar military launched its cataclysmic coup against the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1 2021, starting a civil war that has devastated

open image in gallery Bianca Jagger listens to Helena Kennedy at the screening of The Independent’s documentary ‘Cancelled: The Rise and Fall of Aung San Suu Kyi’ (Al Brown) Ms Chang ...

The Australian former special economic adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi, imprisoned for 21 months by the Myanmar junta that overthrew her elected government, has urged the Trump administration to release the country’s frozen reserve funds to help finance the democratic opposition.

Although many might regard it as an irrelevant backwater, it’s an emergency that should command the world’s attention